[SEEK-Taxon] Taxon Exchange Schema and GUIDs

[Nico M. Franz]

Hi SEEKsters:

    I tried to edit the html too, my comments (there, not here) are in 
blue. A few more comments are below. This is tough stuff, so we shouldn't 
be too hard on ourselves if a perfect solution isn't immediately apparent.

Cheers,

Nico


At 03:14 PM 6/15/2004 +0100, Kennedy, Jessie wrote:
>Hi Folks
>
>You'll probably have seen my reply to Aimee by now...so just to say I'm 
>not yet convinced we should have GUIDs for edges as a general approach to 
>the problem.
>
>The basic reason is I would expect things that have GUIDs to be meaingful 
>real world entities that we wish to refer to. I'm not sure that we want to 
>identify every relationship between concepts as things of importance in 
>their own right.

GUIDs could have an additional function, i.e. to label someone's 
"intellectual contribution" (for a high-flying term) uniquely and 
permanently. Think of them as candy for taxonomists. Under that additional 
reading, it makes sense to assign a GUID to an isolated task of an expert 
connecting concepts, i.e. authoring the connection, and receiving a GUID 
for the effort. This is especially important because making the connections 
is one of the key services the digital environment can provide over the 
print environment.

>
>So sorry for the lack of discussion on the GUID issue earlier but I guess 
>we have to discuss this further in the context of what constitutes a concept.
See my comments in the html.

>
>As you'll eventually see from the wiki page there is still discussion 
>about whether or not we need to have names as distinct entities form 
>concpepts - but we're working on trying to show how the propsed schema 
>would work....

>
>TDWG have set a deadline of 9th August for distributing proposed schemas 
>to the group for comment and we're trying to meet that deadline.
>
>Have been and talked to IPNI now too - only group we haven't been able to 
>have discussion with that we agreed to is APNI.
>
>more soon....
>
>Jessie
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